Abstract [en]

This study examined some factors that can influence which childrenthat medicate with Central Nervous System (CNS) drug. Are there alink between differences in CNS drug use for children with ADHDconnected to parents’ educational level. The research questions of thisstudy were: 1) What are the impacts of parents’ education level onCNS drug use by children with ADHD? and 2) Are there differencesbetween these group of children and children newly diagnosed withADHD in this regard? Aggregated data for this study was collectedfrom The national patient register, Pharmaceutical register, andEducation register. Number of participants in the first group was37959 and the second group consisted of 9443 children. The resultsshowed that children whose parents had Swedish gymnasium as theirhighest education were the ones with the highest treatment proportion,but there were no differences in time of treatment considering theparental education level.